Well Sid Meiers worked on both Civ and Master of Magic at Microprose

No, Meier didn't. You may be thinking of the original Civilization, which
the city screen in Master of Magic is deliberately patterned after, but Sid had no involvement in MoM.

Problem with this game...
 

Hi.

I've been playing this for a while now, but after reinstalling Windows I found a problem. The game will no longer let me save. If I quit out of the game and run wizards.exe then I can carry on where I left off, sort of an autosave, but going to the disk menu in-game the "save" button is no longer availible. I am running under DOSBOX 0.72, same as before. I have tried 3 different downloads of the game, including my original that I was playing before. The one from the Underdogs is broken, so I can't try that. Any advice? No save option makes the game very difficult to win.

Thanks

PS. Other great old games to try ...

Terminator : Skynet
Terminator : Future Shock
Dune 2
Death Rally
Redneck Rampage

I think it's a feature, not a bug. You can start the game with magic.exe instead and you should be able to save and load.

Vdms
 

How do I do this... I'm not big into the 'messing around with DOS', and never was.

Master of Magic Map Editor
 

There was at one time a pair of map editors for MoM, but neither was ever completed. One allowed you to pick and place tiles via GUI, but only for Arcanus. No node or lair movement was allowed, no road editing, no special features, but you COULD place basic terrain with no problem and it functioned properly in game.

The other map editor used numbers and symbols to represent basic terrain, features, lairs, nodes, and roads for both Arcanus and Myrror. However, only the terrain features seemed to work. I could never erase those blasted roads the game makes at world creation.

If anyone knows where I could pick up either editor, I would greatly appreciate it. Sadly, the "magic smoke" escaped from the Win98 machine these editors were on, and the HDD is inaccessible.

Also, does anyone know how to extract the map tile graphics from any of the .LBX libraries?

Best game ever, bar none.

help with sound
 

this is a great game, i have an old compaq presario intel with win95, i can play the game perfectly without sound but i dont know how to configure the soundcards or any way to play it with sound, i dont even know what soundcard i have on the computer. anybody knows how i could make the sound work? when i've tried to make it work it tells me i dont have enough memory and to delete non essential TSRs, what are those?

To begin with, you'll need DOS drivers for that soundcard. And, of course, identification of what exact soundcard is that. There's a program called "EVEREST" (google for "Everest Home") that's pretty good at identifying older components.
Reboot into DOS mode and run from there.

The memory issue most likely refers to Expanded/Extended memory (DOS-specific ways of handling larger amounts of RAM - for a given value of "larger").
TSR = Terminate and Stay Resident = a very limited form of multi-tasking used in DOS.

This thread may prove quite usefull. Read carefully the quoted guide too.